Apparatus for recording and promoting transactions.



A. W. HAIGH.

' APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND ?ROMOTING TRANSCTINS'.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE IofIaIs.

1,290,739. Pateted Jan. 7,1919.

[UNITED STATES PAtr.Err rv OFFICE. i

ALBERT W. HAIGH, or WHITE rLAINs, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS EoR RECORDING AND PRoMoTINGTRANsAcTIoNs.

Specification of Letters Patent, Patented all.

' IApplication filed J' une 10, 1915. Serial No. 33,222.

directly to the Y. M. o. A. or to him for] To all whom 'it may concern.' i

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. I IAIGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at `White Plains, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented tained by one party to a transaction and the other by the other thereof, the uniting of the two parts of the apparatus signifyL ing and recording the close of the transac-- tion, the agency through which it was closed and the amount or other featuresl involved.

It is an object of thisinventionto provide a method and apparatus whereby sales or other transactions may be recorded and whereby, further, such transactions w111 be promoted by making it possible to award ai prize orpremium or pay a rebate when a certain volume of business has been'done.

Itis another object of this invention to proy'ide each class of parties to transactions, with parts of the apparatus which parts may be united to make the complete recording system when each transaction has been accomplished.

It is another object of this invention to provide a method and apparatus for promoting transactions engineered by a broker, without personal` attention to eachtransaction on the part of said broker, and to re-V cord said transactions.

he particular modiication of the invention herein disclosed I provide a system of cards, and a systemjof coupons designed to be attached to the cards to indicate the completion of whatever transaction is indi-v cated by the'coupons. By the use of this apparatus bythe method now to be described, itis possible to promote a large volume of business and at the Sametime to assist some philanthropic or other movement. This may be carried out as followszSuppose, for instance, .that a Y. M. C. A. is desirous ofraising money; a broker employed in puttin 4my invention into practice is approache by itfor assistance. The broken will provide the Y. M.'C. A. with a large number of cards and will, thereafter,

engage or make arrangements with one or more stores so that thestores will pay either the Y. M. C. A. a certain percentage upon all purchases made at the selected stores-for the purpose of the Y. M. C. A.'fundrai sing coupons adapted to be attached' to the cards and indicatlng sales of various amounts. The Y. M. \C. A. distributes the cards through its boys to the purchasing members of numerous families. All purchases made at the stores which are a party to the scheme (the names of which stores will appear upon` the-cards, orby reference to separate list) are`recorded upon the cards by the coupons-A given to the customers at the 'time of making the purchases, and .upon the presentation of his .card,.by the stores. When the card-is full it isreturned to the Y. M C. A. which, either through the broker or directly, col'- total amount of, sales indicated 4upon the cards. By. this means money will be raised campaign. I-Ie then supplies the stores with for philanthropic purposes, stores will receive valuable advertising, their sales vwill be promoted and the purchasers will be Acalled upon to contribute nothing except the time 'and trouble involved in putting the coupons onto the cards.

In the drawings in which I disclose one form of my invention Figure. 1 is an elevation 'of a card such as employed by me in the manner above described.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the same.

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 represent the coupons to be used in vconnection as shown in Fig. 1.

Figs. 6 and 7 pons.l a

Fig. 8 represents the application of they system to' contractsand other business forms, wherein blanks may be filled in by supplying appropriately worded coupons.

For convenience only one store hasv been indicated but it is to be understood that any number may participate. l

The card 1 is provided with depressed portions 2 in which is 3, the surface of the gum being below the level of the face of the card to prevent its sticking to -other cards when stacked up, or to envelops or to other surfaces. l represents the coupons in various amounts which are ada ted to be applied to the card at the time o complet- 'ing each transaction. If more than one store be identified for each store 'so as to properly With the cards, such represent the'form'of cou- 75 lects from the stores a percentage upon the is involved in the scheme the coupons would tracts or contracts of sale.

apportion the expense of cashing in the cards, as above described. The coupons could also bear an appropriate design Such as Y. M. C. A. campaign, or other reading matter, and the name ofthe broker.

In Fig. 8 is disclosed a modification of the invention adapted to be applied for other business. transactions, such as selling contracts, in which large numbers of contracts are made along the same lines by the same concern-such as, for instance, agency con- In this modification-each party is provided with appropriate coupons which are pasted by each into appropriate spaces upon the cards to fill out the instrument to make a complete contract.v Thus in the form disclosed in Fig. S a blank 7 will be filled with coupons indicating the terms of sale, and the blanks 8 will be lled with coupons representing the signatures of the participants of the contract, duly authorized by their agents.

Many other modifications of the invention could, of course, be .devised without departing from the scope and spirit thereof, the essential feature of the invention being the provision of a card Vor blank retained by` one party to the transaction and of coupons supplied to the other party of a transaction, the union of the blanks and coupons indicating the completion of the particular transaction indicated by the coupons attached. It is obvious, for instance, that the invention is applic-able to a transaction involving the agreement or coaction of three or more parties, one of Whom will be supplied with the card and the other with different brought about by a third person without the personal attendance by such third person at the closing of the same, comprising a card the surface of which is provided with de-v pressions therein, the face of said depressions being gummed, coupons representing the amount of sales, said card to be delivered to a buying individual and said coupons to a sellin individual whereby upon a sale the selling individual will issue coupons to the buying individuals to be pasted to said gummed surface which being depressed will permit said cards to be placed in contact with each other or with other papers without ac-' filled with coupons it will evidence the transv action between the parties.

3., Apparatus for recording transactions, comprising a blank having spaces thereon, coupons adapted to fill said spaces, said blank having matter thereon to indicate the general nature of the business, and the coupons indicating the particular transactions and one of the parties thereto whereby when said coupons are attached to said blank particular transactions will be recorded. y

In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name to this specifica-tion in the presence of two Witnesses.

' ALBERT W. HAIGH. lWitnesses;

S. D. HAIGHT, RAYMOND A. DE FOREST. 

